Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Hardly any days left!

Christmas is now hurtling at us like a freight train, but I think we are nearly ready - except for the last of the food!

Cards are sent, presents, except for a few stocking fillers, are bought and around half of them wrapped. Yep, we are getting there!

Food wise, we are switching back to a routine that we had a few years back.

On Christmas Eve we do a large gammon and eat this with cheese, rice and fresh home made rolls. This is something that we all enjoy - quite an achievement in our house!

On Christmas Day we do not have a set meal, but allow everyone to eat tons of biscuits, chocolate, etc, and then cook a series of savoury things throughout the day to be eaten as a buffet. We find that this works well as it means that we are not telling the kids to leave the goodies alone all day, not dishing up a huge meal when no one is actually hungry and finally not slaving in the kitchen when there is fun to be had elsewhere!

Boxing Day sees the big dinner, but instead of the massive ostrich sized turkey that we often feel obliged to buy we are either having a variety of other meat - beef, pork and duck - or an alternative that the kids like the sound of is to cook a batch of small chickens and have one each! We will see how it turns out!

Most of all we are hoping that the holiday will give us time to relax and get ourselves sorted out physically and emotionally to take on 2008 - who knows what that will have in store for us?

This might be my last post of the year - if it is I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year. May all your wishes, dreams and prayers come true in 2008.

21 comments:

The food sounds DELISH!!!! I am jealous!! Your holiday sounds like it's going to be a huge success for all. I'm with you on the relaxing and prepareing for 2008...I have a feeling it's going to be one GREAT year.

I'm with Princess...what's gammon?? But I LOVE the idea of grazing through the meals, that is my favorite way to eat, pick a little, hang out a little. Mmmmmm, fun! Sad that this is potentially it until the new year, but glad that you will be with your family and enjoying all the festivities!!! {{{{HUGS}}} are always appropriate, right back at ya!!!

Merry Christmas to you John, and your family as well. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, humor and glimpses of your life with all of us in the past year. Your writings are fun, entertaining, and quite often inspiring. Enjoy your holidays! HUGS!

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